bcache: add stop_when_cache_set_failed option to backing device
When there are too many I/O errors on cache device, current bcache code will retire the whole cache set, and detach all bcache devices. But the detached bcache devices are not stopped, which is problematic when bcache is in writeback mode. If the retired cache set has dirty data of backing devices, continue writing to bcache device will write to backing device directly. If the LBA of write request has a dirty version cached on cache device, next time when the cache device is re-registered and backing device re-attached to it again, the stale dirty data on cache device will be written to backing device, and overwrite latest directly written data. This situation causes a quite data corruption. But we cannot simply stop all attached bcache devices when the cache set is broken or disconnected. For example, use bcache to accelerate performance of an email service. In such workload, if cache device is broken but no dirty data lost, keep the bcache device alive and permit email service continue to access user data might be a better solution for the cache device failure. Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> points out the issue and provides the above example to explain why it might be necessary to not stop bcache device for broken cache device. Pavel Goran <via-bcache@pvgoran.name> provides a brilliant suggestion to provide "always" and "auto" options to per-cached device sysfs file stop_when_cache_set_failed. If cache set is retiring and the backing device has no dirty data on cache, it should be safe to keep the bcache device alive. In this case, if stop_when_cache_set_failed is set to "auto", the device failure handling code will not stop this bcache device and permit application to access the backing device with a unattached bcache device. Changelog: [mlyle: edited to not break string constants across lines] v3: fix typos pointed out by Nix. v2: change option values of stop_when_cache_set_failed from 1/0 to "auto"/"always". v1: initial version, stop_when_cache_set_failed can be 0 (not stop) or 1 (always stop). Signed-off-by: NColy Li <colyli@suse.de> Reviewed-by: NMichael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org> Signed-off-by: NMichael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org> Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> Cc: Pavel Goran <via-bcache@pvgoran.name> Cc: Junhui Tang <tang.junhui@zte.com.cn> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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